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Silenced, jailed and tortured for speaking out against the treatment of his people, the Venerable Bagdro, a Tibetan monk, could be forgiven for abandoning his religious crusade.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a rare 12-kilometre-long glacier dating back over 1,000 years in Basu county of the Qamdo prefecture in east Tibet, according to a report.

A worldwide coalition of travelers today announced the first-ever tourism boycott of Nepal. This boycott comes in response to the illegal forced return of Tibetan refugees into the hands of Chinese authorities.

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department has launched a survey of the Tibetan Scholarship Programme better known as the Tibetan Fulbright Scholarship.

As a result of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s efforts, we were able to re-establish direct contact with the Chinese leadership in September 2002. In continuation of the process my colleague Kelsang Gyaltsen and I, accompanied by two members of the Task Force

The Tibetan community here is set to welcome defence minister George Fernandes, who is scheduled to visit the hill town on June 12. The minister has accepted an invitation from the Tibetan Refugee Centre (TRC), Darjeeling

Sources emanating from the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu state that the Nepal-Tibet border will be reopened on 1 July 2003. The People's Republic of China (PRC) stopped flights between Lhasa and Kathmandu on 27 April 2003 as part of a catalogue

The 5-day Buddhist teachings concluded here this evening with the offering of the long life prayers to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Lakha Rinpoche, chairman of Tibet Charity that had organised the teachings.

A series of meetings between the Dalai Lama's envoys and senior Chinese officials have helped clear some misunderstandings between the two sides on the Tibet issue, the exiled spiritual leader's spokesman said on Tuesday.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will arrive in Delhi tomorrow after completing his tour of Europe. The 67-year-old Buddhist leader and Tibet's temporal head will head for Ladakh where he will give discourse on Buddhism to the Buddhist population in the region.